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Guatemala’s Burning-of-the-Devil Puts Trump in the Fire as 2025’s “Evil”

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Dec 09, 2025
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Guatemalans burn Trump effigies to scatter evil spirits | Reuters

GUATEMALA CITY — A dramatic turn on a centuries-old tradition: during the annual La Quema del Diablo festival held Dec. 7 in Guatemala City, a giant devil effigy carrying a likeness of U.S. President Donald Trump was set ablaze — a symbolic act meant to mark “the banishing of bad things” before Christmas.

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